Politics & Economy audiobooks

The Emigrant Edge

By: Brian Buffini

Narrated by: Fred Sanders & Brian Buffini

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Brian Buffini, an Irish immigrant who went from rags to riches, shares his strategies for anyone who wants to achieve the American dream in this New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller.

Brian Buffini embodies the classic rags to riches tale: born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, he arrived in San Diego, California at nineteen years old... Read more

The Big Lie

By: Dinesh D’Souza

Narrated by: David Cochran Heath

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The explosive new book from Dinesh D’Souza, author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Hillary’s America, America, and Obama’s AmericaWhat is “the big lie” of the Democratic Party? That conservatives—and President Donald Trump in particular—are fascists. Nazis, even. In a typical comment, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow says the Trump era is... Read more

Some Iraqi forces wage campaign of punishment against ISIS sympathizers

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

As the battle to retake Mosul from the Islamic State nears its end, a new campaign of revenge and retribution is underway by Iraqi forces against those suspected of fighting for or aiding the militant group. Human rights organizations report a number of extrajudicial killings, mass detentions and forced displacement. Special correspondent Marcia... Read more

Propaganda

By: Edward Bernays

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 4 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.”—Edward BernaysA seminal and controversial figure in the history of... Read more

In Formation

By: Lieutenant Colonel Cheryl Dietrich, USAF (RET.)

Narrated by: Donna Postel

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

“In 1979 I was a Presbyterian minister, a hospital chaplain, and a pacifist. In 1980, I left the church and joined the Air Force. The day I showed up at the recruiter's office, I was twenty-eight, under-exercised, a wimp, and extraordinarily ignorant of the military. I intended it to be a stopgap measure while I figured out what to do next, but... Read more

The Candidates

By: the Speech Resource Company

Narrated by: Robert Wikstrom

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

From Herbert Hoover through Donald Trump speeches, press conferences and campaign addresses are featured from candidates running for various positions: senators and representatives, governors, mayors, state and municipal officeholders, and more. What each candidate promises and pledges to those they hope to gain support. Produced by the Speech... Read more

The Retreat of Western Liberalism

By: Edward Luce

Narrated by: Julian Elfer

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In his widely acclaimed book Time to Start Thinking, Financial Times chief U.S. columnist and commentator Edward Luce charted the course of America's relative decline, proving to be a prescient voice on our current social and political turmoil.



In The Retreat of Western Liberalism, Luce makes a larger statement about the weakening of western... Read more

True Stories of Famous Americans

By: Elbridge Streeter Brooks

Narrated by: Jim Hodges

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Bring history back to life through Jim Hodges’ historically accurate, exciting, and edifying audio recordings. If you want facts about our forefathers, get any history text; this book is more interested in the personalities and character traits and family histories that contributed to the development of the great men who built our nation. It’s a... Read more

The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy

By: Christopher Lasch

Narrated by: David de Vries

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

In this challenging work, Christopher Lasch makes an accessible critique of what is wrong with the values and beliefs of America's professional and managerial elites. The distinguished historian argues that democracy today is threatened not by the masses, as José Ortega y Gasset (The Revolt of the Masses) had said, but by the elites. These... Read more

China Marine

By: E.B. Sledge

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

China Marine is the sequel to E. B. Sledge's critically acclaimed memoir, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa.

Picking up where his previous memoir leaves off, Sledge, a young marine in the First Division, traces his company's movements and charts his own difficult passage to peace following his horrific experiences in the Pacific. He... Read more

Devil's Bargain

By: Joshua Green

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The instant #1 New York Times bestseller.

From the reporter who was there at the very beginning comes the revealing inside story of the partnership between Steve Bannon and Donald Trump—the key to understanding the rise of the alt-right, the fall of Hillary Clinton, and the hidden forces that drove the greatest upset in American political history.... Read more

The Gilded Rage

By: Alexander Zaitchik

Narrated by: Todd McLaren

Length: 4 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Selected as one of Publishers Weekly's Top Ten picks for Politics & Current Events of Fall 2016
2016 continues to be the most surreal and unpredictable election year in recent memory and this is due in large part to one Donald J. Trump and the millions of Americans who made him this year's Republican nominee for president. As Trump continues... Read more

Fake Science

By: Austin Ruse

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

If you listen to any political argument, you're eventually bound to hear something like: "The science is settled on this." Or: "Just look at the statistics!" Or: "There have been studies that say..." You'd think we were living in the golden age of science and reason. But the truth is far more sinister, says Austin Ruse. We're actually living in... Read more

Denn mit dem Herzen sieht man besser! Eine wahre Geschichte voller Hoffnung, Kraft und Menschlichkeit

By: Dirk Planert

Narrated by: Dirk Planert

Length: 1 hour 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Bosnien, 1993. Auf Bihac gehen täglich bis zu 2.000 Granaten nieder, über 100.000 Menschen sind im sogenannten Kessel rund um die Stadt eingeschlossen. Sie hungern, haben Durst und verlassen sich auf Menschen wie Dirk, die humanitäre Hilfe leisten. Was unter "normalen" Umständen schon ein wahrer Albtraum ist, spitzt sich zu, als Dirk den Auftrag... Read more

The Netanyahu Years

By: Ben Caspit & Ora Cummings

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 17 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A portrait of the current Israeli prime minister, one of Israel's more noticeable leaders in recent decades. Benjamin Netanyahu is currently serving his fourth term in office as Prime Minister of Israel, the longest serving Prime Minister in the country's history. Now Israeli journalist Ben Caspit puts Netanyahu's life under a magnifying glass,... Read more

The Big Sort

By: Bill Bishop

Narrated by: Paul Brion

Length: 12 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2004, journalist Bill Bishop coined the term "the big sort." Armed with startling new demographic data, he made national news in a series of articles showing how Americans have been sorting themselves into alarmingly homogeneous communities—not by region or by state, but by city and even neighborhood. Over the past three decades, we have been... Read more

Global Inequality

By: Branko Milanovic

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Branko Milanovic presents a bold new account of the dynamics that drive inequality on a global scale. Drawing on vast data sets and cutting-edge research, he explains the benign and malign forces that make inequality rise and fall within and among nations. He also reveals who has been helped the most by globalization, who has been held back, and... Read more

Captured

By: Sheldon Whitehouse & Melanie Wachtell Stinnett

Narrated by: Michael Bybee & Sheldon Whitehouse

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In Captured, U.S. Senator and former federal prosecutor Sheldon Whitehouse offers an eye-opening take on what corporate influence looks like today from the Senate Floor, adding a first-hand perspective to Jane Mayer’s Dark Money. 

Americans know something is wrong in their government. Senator Whitehouse combines history, legal scholarship, and... Read more

Lee

By: Clifford Dowdey

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 33 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

General Robert E. Lee is well known as a major figure in the Civil War. However, by removing Lee from the delimiting frame of the Civil War and placing him in the context of the Republic’s total history, Dowdey shows the “eternal relevance” of this tragic figure to the American heritage. With access to hundreds of personal letters, Dowdey brings... Read more

Men Without Work

By: Nicholas Eberstadt

Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

By one reading, things look pretty good for Americans today: the country is richer than ever before and the unemployment rate is down by half since the Great Recession.



But a closer look shows that something is going seriously wrong. This is the collapse of work—especially among America's men. Political economist Nicholas Eberstadt shows that... Read more

The Darkening Web

By: Alexander Klimburg

Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith

Length: 14 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

“A prescient and important book. . . . Fascinating.”—The New York Review of Books


No single invention of the last half century has changed the way we live now as much as the Internet. Alexander Klimburg was a member of the generation for whom it was a utopian ideal turned reality: a place where ideas, information, and knowledge could be shared... Read more

As Venezuela's economy plummets, mass exodus ensues

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Despite having the largest oil reserves in the world, Venezuela’s economy is in a freefall, necessities have become scarce and tens of thousands of residents are fleeing across the border to Colombia. With support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, special correspondent Nadja Drost and videographer Bruno Federico report on the exodus. Read more

The Ten Types of Human

By: Dexter Dias

Narrated by: Tom Clegg

Length: 26 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Random House presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook edition of The Ten Types of Human by Dexter Dias, read by Tom Clegg.

This book will introduce you to ten people. In a way, you already know them. Only you don’t – not really. In a sense, they are you. Only they’re not entirely. They inform and shape the most important decisions in... Read more

A Farewell to Justice

By: Joan Mellen

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 23 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Working with thousands of previously unreleased documents and drawing on more than one thousand interviews, with many witnesses speaking out for the first time, Joan Mellen revisits the investigation of New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison, the only public official to have indicted, in 1969, a suspect in President John F. Kennedy’s... Read more